Acuitas Investments

What is Acuitas Investments?

Acuitas Investments is a family office based in Seattle, Washington, United States, that serves investors by identifying unique investment opportunities in inefficient markets with the aim to generate best-in-class returns. They position themselves as the world's premier experts in global small and microcap investing.

Their investment strategies encompass a range of small cap equities, including domestic microcaps, domestic small caps, international small caps, and emerging markets small caps, as well as a long/short equity strategy. Acuitas employs a multi-manager approach to manage portfolios, which they believe helps in capturing the advantages presented by market inefficiencies, particularly in the less observed segments of the market like microcap and small cap sectors.

The Acuitas Microcap strategy is benchmarked against the Russell Microcap Index and focuses on U.S. microcap equities. Similarly, the Small Cap strategy focuses on domestic small cap equities, generally represented within the Russell 2000 Index.

Their International Small Cap strategy, benchmarked versus the FTSE Global Small Cap ex U.S. Index, includes global products with moderate emerging market exposure, considering companies below $4 billion for international small cap qualification. The Emerging Markets Small Cap strategy is oriented towards equities in emerging markets and is benchmarked against the FTSE Small Cap Emerging Index, including allocations to frontier markets to exploit even greater inefficiencies.

Additionally, the Acuitas Long/Short Equity strategy follows a multi-manager, absolute return process targeting small and microcap equities globally, utilizing Russell’s global suite of small and microcap indexes. They offer a range of whitepapers for deeper insights into their investment process and strategies.